When a PC crashes the smb process does not die. If that smb process is holding a lock on a file, the file is locked until I, the sysadmin, kill it. Some of our smb processes are owned by the user, but most are owned by root, so the user cannot kill it themselves. I am thinking about writing a small script that will, for a given user, search out all smb processes and kill them. Maybe someone has already done this? Of course, I would rather this happen automatically - when a pc crashes, the smb process dies too. Maybe I just have to know what config parameters to use. I have considered using the dead time parameter, but we turned that off more than a year ago for reasons I no longer remember. Should I reconsider that decision? Can anyone offer any suggestions? Kind regards, Larry